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Does the WTO Help Member States Clean Up?
Aaronson, Susan Ariel - 2014
Corruption (the abuse of entrusted authority for illicit gain) is pervasive, hard to measure, and damaging both to economic growth and human rights. Corruption is also intimately associated with trade. However, the international organization governing trade, the WTO, says nothing about...
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Is technical assistance under free trade agreements WTO-plus? : a review of Japan-ASEAN economic partnership agreements
Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2011
have not been thoroughly conducted. This paper presents a detailed textual analysis of World Trade Organization (WTO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283425
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Harmonization of Law for Economic Development in Vietnam and Impacts of the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement Toward this Process and Future US-VN Trade Relations : Part 2 BTA a...
Nguyen, Binh - 2010
In this Project Paper, Ambassador Nguyen Guy Binh brings alive Vietnam’s transition from a controlled economy to a market-based economy. For him, this is not just a period of scholarly interest, but one where the people of Vietnam went from not having enough food to eat, to having food,...
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Trade and Investment Agreements : What Role for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Economic Law?
Haugen, Hans Morten - 2015
Are economic, social and cultural rights actually taken into account when arbitration or adjudicating bodies (panels or tribunals) seek to solve disputes arising under international economic law (IEL)? The term ‘human rights' is seldom applied in the substantive provisions of trade or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029866
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Trade Agreements, Regulatory Sovereignty and Democratic Legitimacy
Hoekman, Bernard - 2017
Governments increasingly are seeking to use bilateral and regional trade agreements to reduce the cost-increasing effects of differences in product market regulation. They also pursue regulatory cooperation independent of trade agreements. It is important to understand what is being done through...
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Regulatory Coherence and the Mega-Regional Trade Agreements : Lessons from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Ciuriak, Dan - 2020
The Trans-Pacific Partnership includes a chapter on regulatory coherence and measures to reduce trade costs arising from divergent standards. We review the substantive content of the TPP's measures in light of existing processes in international organizations addressing good regulatory...
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Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316371
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How Can South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa Gain from the Next Wto Round?
Anderson, Kym; Yao, Shunli - 2014
If South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are to become constructively engaged in the next attempt by World Trade … economic effects on their economies of further liberalizing world trade post-Uruguay Round. The results show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014034357
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Would Harmonizing Preferential Rules of Origin Aid Trade Liberalization?
Mabrouk, Hatem - 2019
variations, along with their complexity, are considered to be a nightmare for producers and traders all over the world … thesis offers the member countries of the World Trade Organization a proposed harmonized set of preferential rules of origin … to be hopefully implemented in the World Trade Organization system. Moreover, the thesis theoretically tests the proposal …
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